Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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